official 2010 world cup thread

[gomestar]

wow Japan.

 

[Brian SD]

Beautiful kick by Endo! Go Japan!

 

[paraiso]

Nippon!!!!!!!

 

[tricota]

I just cant believe that we arent more hungry for it... We are just a nation of slackers...

 

[celery]

I was wondering when someone would score off of free kicks, props to Japan for doing it twice.

 

[romafan]

Originally Posted by tricota

I just cant believe that we arent more hungry for it... We are just a nation of slackers...

C'mon! We are red, we are white, we are Danish dynamite!

 

[holymadness]

That Van Persie goal was pretty sick, it was a two-on-five.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I am probably the only person on earth who picked Japan to advance. I am very happy if this holds up.

 

[tricota]

Originally Posted by romafan

C'mon! We are red, we are white, we are Danish dynamite!

That was a long time ago. Now mostly we are just a bunsh of pussies, who really cant make a simple decision without the state being involved. unly once in a blue moon, waking up and remembering that we are not only free individuals but also somewhat related to the vikings of yesteryears... But that is usually out of spite and selfloathing...

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

I am probably the only person on earth who picked Japan to advance. I am very happy if this holds up.

i would have picked them had someone asked me.

i'm an advocate for all the non-euro teams.

 

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

By "diverse", do you mean "more mexicans"? Because aside from them, statistically speaking, L.A. is less diverse than Seattle. San Fran = 49.66% white (astoundingly low, actually, but you have a near 30% Asian population which is exceedingly high) Seattle = 68.9% white Los Angeles = 74.1% white

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

i don't know about your numbers but there are parts of l.a. where one could live his life comfortably speaking only russian, korean, spanish, armenian, arabic, farsi, etc. not a word of english needed. do you have that in seattle?

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

No, but that isn't what we are talking about either. Maybe more minorities in this area speak english. Who knows.

My numbers come from city census data available online. The numbers are only as misleading as any other racial demographic data to be found in census information. Which, by the way is pretty much the only data available. In other words, Hispanic doesn't neccesarily mean you are or aren't white. Which is why I listed the number for "whites" and not Hispanics. Its a more appropriate benchmark. A larger portion of L.A., according to census data consider themselves "white".

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

So, if you look at the percentage of foreign born population, yeah, LA destroys the national average. But I blame that on all the Canadians working in Hollywood.

Seattle is still well above the national average in this category. And we lead the nation in multiethnic/multiracial people.
Just to beat this dead horse back to life, I wanted to add that census info for the city of Los Angeles doesn't really address what Shell originally might have meant when referring to LA. Greater LA contains a number of smaller cities that are divided up with invisible lines and truly make up the whole of "LA." Uou should probably look at larger numbers when considering the local "diversity." I believe the city of Carson is considered the most diverse city in the nation, for instance.

 

[sebastianm]

1-2 to Japan. Goal by Jon Dahl Tomasson.

 

[calisanfran]

Ridiculous penalty.

 

[sebastianm]

^^ True but Denmark still needs two more goals to advance to the 1/8 finals so it shouldn't make that much of a difference...

 

[asobu]

yeah, he obviously diving. too bad he saved it and they still scored. can barely watch now, i'm getting nervous. but japan has been playi...



GOAL!!!!